Local economies?
Subtitle: production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquities
By: edites by Luke Lavan
Series: Late antique archaelogy -- 10
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9789004277038
Subjects: Economic conditions; Commerce; History; Civilization
Description: "The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of contributors; title: Local economies in late antiquity? : some thoughts / Luke Lavan; title: The late antique economy : approaches, methods and conceptual issues / Alyssa A. Bandow; title: The late antique economy : regional surveys / Andrea Zerbini; title: The late antique economy : primary and secondary production / Andrea Zerbini; title: The late antique economy : infrastructures of transport and retail / Alyssa A. Bandow; title: The late antique economy : ceramics and trade / Stefano Costa; title: A comparative perspective on the late antique economy / Mark Whittow; title: Integration and disintegration in the late Roman economy : the role of markets, emperors, and aristocrats / Peter Sarris; title: Production in inland regions; title: Villas, taxes and trade in fourth century hispania / Kim Bowes; title: The lessons of Gaulish sigillata and other finewares / Tamara Lewit; title: Patterning the late antique economies of inland sicily in a Mediterranean context / Emanuele Vaccaro; title: Diana Veteranorum and the dynamics of an inland economy / Elizabeth Fentress; title: The economic expansion of the anatolian countryside in late antiquity : the coast versus inland regions / Adam Izdebski; title: The urban economy in southern inland greater Syria from the seventh century to the end of the umayyads / Fanny Bessard; title: Exchange in inland regions; title: Balancing the scales : Romano-British pottery in early late antiquity / Jeremy Evans; title: The supply and distribution of ceramic building material in Roman Britain / Phil Mills; title: Imported and local pottery in late Roman Pannonia / Piroska Harshegyi and Katalin Ottomanyi; title: Africa : patterns of consumption in coastal regions versus inland regions : the ceramic evidence (300-700 a.d.) / Michel Bonifay; title: Pottery production and exchange in late antique syria (fourth-eighth century A.D.). a study of some imported and local wares / Agnes Vokaer; title: Abstracts in French; title: Indices; title: Themes; title: Index of places.